SMITHVILLE, N.C., April 4, 1845.
My Dear Brother:
I am going to return to Charleston to-night by sea, and expect to be turned
wrong side out, as the wind is blowing a half gale. I have been to Wilmington
in this State to stand by a young friend who exchanged the independence of the
bachelor for the charms of Governor Dudley's daughter. We had a brilliant
wedding,— dinner-parties and balls for three days, — when I came here to see a
friend, and will now go home by the first steamboat that comes along. . . . I
expect upon my arrival at Ft. Moultrie to find a letter from mother and
yourself, and if I do not — good-by, for devil the word has reached me from
Mansfield for four months. Love to all. Smithville is on the Cape Fear River,
near the outlet.
Your affectionate
brother,
W. T. SHERMAN.
SOURCE: Rachel
Sherman Thorndike, Editor, The Sherman Letters: Correspondence Between
General and Senator Sherman from 1837 to 1891, p. 27
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